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How Do I Add a Major Incident Response to an Existing Integration? - Ask Adam

When we receive an alert, the obvious choice is to accept responsibility for the issue and start resolving it ourselves. But, what happens when the incident is far more major than we thought? With xMatters, you don't have to scramble to find who else is on-call, you can configure the platform to help find other responders for you.

3 Ways to Use the xMatters and Microsoft Azure Monitor Integration

For a number of years, the debate on DevOps vs. ITIL has divided many technology teams. On the surface, both practices seem at odds with one another—DevOps harnesses the power of human collaboration and communication to support innovation, while ITIL utilizes a more systematic and structured approach to deliver service quality and consistency. But, if we take a deeper look, you’ll find that not only can DevOps and ITIL co-exist, they can even complement each other.

Best practices for writing incident postmortems

After you have stopped an incident from affecting your customers, you need a more thorough investigation in order to prevent similar incidents in the future. Postmortems record the root causes of an incident and provide insights for making your systems more resilient. At the same time, postmortems can be difficult to produce, since they require deeper analysis and coordination between teammates who are busy with the next development cycle.

Best Practices to Reduce DevOps Burnout

As software development teams struggle with spotty, siloed software delivery cycles, the DevOps approach provides relief by unifying stakeholders to achieve faster, collaborative and continuous software delivery. However, the DevOps methodology fails if it does not address the issue of DevOps burnout. In this post, we’ll uncover strategies that DevOps teams can use to better manage their work environment.

The doctor is in: why domain agnostic AIOps is a necessity for diagnosis

Gartner recently identified two different high-level categories of AIOps: domain-centric and domain-agnostic. Elik Eizenberg, CTO at BigPanda, explains the difference and why would you need the latter to gain an overall view and understanding of your IT Ops.

What's New: Introducing the PagerDuty App for Salesforce Service Cloud

In today’s world of digital everything, where customers are increasingly demanding instant updates when problems occur, it’s more important than ever to take immediate action. Seconds matter, and teams need to be empowered to proactively solve customer-impacting incidents as quickly as possible.